The Sketch about a Timekeeping

The Sketch about a Timekeeping


- What size of the grant?

- 1000000.

- How many minutes need to be fulfilled?

- 840.  That is, 14 hours - 60 minutes in each.

- It's a lot, but we will make "packages" - 2 hours each. We will try to do the all within 7 days.

- So … 1000000 … 840 … And how many ideas?

- Internet filters work in online. On average, 1 idea comes in a 10 minutes period.

- But the themes of the ideas, the levels, quality of the ideas – are the different …

- That's why they gave you 840 minutes. For 840 minutes you will receive 84 ideas. Of these, 10 percent, that is 8.4-well, rounded, - 10 ideas - more or less of a normal level and quality.

- And a literary and intellectual factories? A personal intellectual slaves?

- In these options there are elements of doubt, some risk. Why do we need to be the dubious? These are options for the fussy. The intelligent Internet crowdsourcing is a thing socially accepted and endorsed.

- You're right!

- The ideas need to be been  effective presented … At rather high level of abstraction.

- You are right. An idea is the abstraction. An idea isn't attached to any personality.

- The quantity us is small. But - and grants there isn't a lot of.

- The budget is not a rubber.

- In general, " hurry slowly." A slow, brooding way of a speaking. All sorts of emotional "seasoning". "Civilization" - "outstanding achievements" - "we" - "startups" - "discourses" - "modeling of the future". Well, in the same spirit. It is not a dogma. Of course, creativity is welcome.

- It isn't necessary to hurry with the presentation of ideas. You're "pull a thought", and ideas from the Internet are "dropping". All sorts of schoolboys, students, intellectual volunteers, suddenly left without work, restless pensioners.  Also it isn't forbidden to others. You "abstract" the ideas, - you clean the ideas, as far as possible, from authorship. Also you insert the ideas into a  weaves of words.

- And 1000000 in our pockets!

- Yes!

- You are a genius!

- The burlak – the barge hauler - of industrialization!

- Nevertheless not everything is so simple …

- Well, it is clear … Not yesterday were born …

- Turn on the toggle-switch!

- We begin the intellectual movement!


May 18, 2018 09:50


Translation from Russian into English: May 18, 2018 15:03.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский “Скетч о тайминге”.